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Re: Redszone Dynasty League 2013 -- Season 5

Hey guys,

Sorry I dropped the ball on the draft this year. Been crazy busy with teaching, coaching, grad school and getting married. Checked my alternate email this morning and I had 98 emails about the league. I understand you guys need someone more involved. Unfortunately I can't be that guy this year. Best of luck everyone.

P.S. Sorry to those of you who wanted Cabrera for so long! Had a baseball man crush on him!

"The Hall of Fame is there to keep alive the memory of people. You don't need to do that with people like Buck [O'Niel] and Joe [Nuxhall]. Nobody's forgetting those guys."

Re: Redszone Dynasty League 2013 -- Season 5

Originally Posted by Stephenk29

Hey guys,

Sorry I dropped the ball on the draft this year. Been crazy busy with teaching, coaching, grad school and getting married. Checked my alternate email this morning and I had 98 emails about the league. I understand you guys need someone more involved. Unfortunately I can't be that guy this year. Best of luck everyone.

P.S. Sorry to those of you who wanted Cabrera for so long! Had a baseball man crush on him!

Sometimes real life gets in the way of fantasy baseball -- especially when there is a new wife involved! We all understand that. No hard feelings.

Congrats on the marriage. And best of luck with the coaching! It is baseball I hope.

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Re: Redszone Dynasty League 2013 -- Season 5

Important Note:
Thanks everyone for sharing your opinions regarding the NA roster. I got lots of good feedback. The early results showed a preference for going straight to 5 NA slots this year, but then some folks started having some reticence and stated their desire to start small.

When we made changes to the rules in prior years we only made slow gradual changes. After reading your opinions I have decided to slow down and make only a small change this year. For that reason, we will start with only 2 NA slots this season. I realize some of you want to go straight to the full 5 NA slots, but since we already had our draft and this new roster option was only made available after we had already made our plans it seems best that we start off slow with 2 slots now and ramp it up to 5 slots next year.

So here is the plan:

If you have any remaining draft picks, skipped picks or passed picks you must use them by Midnight Thursday night / Friday morning. Any picks left unused by Midnight Thursday will expire and be lost. Once the draft is over do not add any free agents.

I will enable the NA roster after Midnight Thursday night / Friday morning. At that time you may begin transferring players from your active roster to your new NA roster.

We will have a two-round Supplemental Draft starting at Noon on Friday March 29th. It will work the same as our yearly slow draft except we will use 8 hour timers per pick. The draft order will be the reverse of last year's standings to give the rebuilding teams a little extra boost.

You can still keep minor leaguers on your active roster if you like. Many teams will want to keep more prospects in addition to the ones on their NA roster.

Any player with an NA label can be put on the NA roster even if they are not minor leaguers.

During this Supplemental Draft you can select your choice of either NA-eligible players or major league players if you have opened a roster spot by transferring another player who was already on your active roster to the NA roster.

Since everyone will have two fresh NA roster slots we will not need to drop a player to make your supplemental draft pick. (see exception below*)

*One important consideration, if you draft a minor league player for your NA roster you will need to first add him to your active roster before transferring him to the NA roster. If you do not have an open active roster slot you won't be able to pick up the drafted player without temporarily dropping someone first. You can temporarily drop the player without losing him. In this situation make sure to state in the message when you post your pick that the player you dropped needs to go back on your team. I will then take the player off waivers and add him back to your team.

I realize this Supplemental Draft may not be finished before Opening Day. It might be a minor annoyance, but it is not a major issue. The players you are drafting in the Supplemental Draft are not likely to be worthy of your starting lineup right now anyway. If the draft runs a couple days over into the season it will be OK.

Re: Redszone Dynasty League 2013 -- Season 5

I'm giving up my team. Winning the league 3 years in a row really takes a lot out of ya.

Some people prefer to take over teams they can rebuild so they can have it the way they want it. For everyone else this is the team that's available. There are enough good players, enough depth, and good 2014 draft picks that it should make things a little easier for my replacement. So, whoever takes over the team won't have to win the league title. Instead they'll just have to make sure they don't lose it.

Atomic Dumpling is the commissioner in this league if you're interested (and want to know who to bribe).

AD, thanks for letting me join the league 5 years ago. And for letting me take the crown from you and keep it.

Re: Redszone Dynasty League 2013 -- Season 5

Originally Posted by camisadelgolf

We're bumping it up to five NA slots this year, right? Also, do we need to start thinking about replacing any teams?

Correct, it will be 5 NA slots this year.

We will likely have to replace redsfandan because he expressed a desire to drop out after winning the championship. Unless the long winter has fostered a renewed desire to keep playing we will need to find a new owner for his team.

I don't know about you guys but I have had enough of a break and am ready to get started again.

Re: Redszone Dynasty League 2013 -- Season 5

Originally Posted by AtomicDumpling

Correct, it will be 5 NA slots this year.

We will likely have to replace redsfandan because he expressed a desire to drop out after winning the championship. Unless the long winter has fostered a renewed desire to keep playing we will need to find a new owner for his team.

I don't know about you guys but I have had enough of a break and am ready to get started again.

That team is set to dominate again. I see no reason to just hand a championship to the new guy.

That is the reverse of last year's standings. I have not plotted out the full 5 round draft, which will have some traded draft picks included. So above is the generic order but there will be a few changes in some rounds due to trades. I should probably go ahead and figure out the complete order.

Think we should add a round or two because of the extra NA slots this year? Maybe Yahoo will add real minor league rosters this season.

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